--- title: A constitution, agreed upon by referendum in January 2002, granted t… — Republic of the Congo · tree and pragmatics description: A constitution, agreed upon by referendum in January 2002, granted the president new powers, extended his term to seven years and introduced a new bicameral assembly. Who acts: constitution, president. 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A constitution, agreed upon by referendum in January 2002, granted the president new powers, extended his term to seven years and introduced a new bicameral assembly. **Who acts:** constitution, president · **What happens:** agree, grant, extend, introduce, term · **To what, where:** constitution, president, term, new bicameral assembly This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Republic of the Congo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (constitution, president), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Republic_of_the_Congo:85 # text = A constitution, agreed upon by referendum in January 2002, granted the president new powers, extended his term to seven years and introduced a new bicameral assembly. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 constitution constitution NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 agreed agree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 upon upon ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 referendum referendum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 2002 2002 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 granted grant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 powers power NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 extended extend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 introduced introduce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 bicameral bicameral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 assembly assembly NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle | | a constitution *not said here* | | | | upon referendum in January 2002 | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **grant** | past | a constitution | the president | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent president=Goal power=Theme | | 3 | **extend** | past | a constitution *not said here* | president's term | | | year | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent term=Theme | | 4 | **introduce** | past | a constitution *not said here* | a new bicameral assembly | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assembly=Patient | | 5 | **term** | | president | | | | | | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Republic of the Congo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0. - ← previous: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Republic_of_the_Congo/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Republic_of_the_Congo/86/) - ↑ back to [Republic of the Congo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Republic_of_the_Congo/)